The magnificent machine

Nuala Moran

Science|Business Senior Editor Nuala Moran.

The most expensive experiment in the history of science gets under way at CERN next week. More than 25 years since it was conceived the first subatomic particles will be fired around the 27 kilometre-long circular tunnel that forms the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

The true test of whether this massive exercise in international collaboration and funding will deliver the insights its protagonists have promised comes several weeks later. Some time in the autumn it is planned to set two streams of protons on a collision course in a bid to create a miniature version of...

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